SiWT917 Open Source Driver

The SiWT917 RCP Driver is a SoftMAC driver that interacts with the Linux wireless MAC layer, MAC80211. It consists of simple and efficient kernel modules that currently support SiWT917 RCP chipsets and can be ported to any embedded platform, in addition to the X-86 platform.

• Release Notes
• Licensing
• Documentation
  • Software Reference
  • Hardware Reference
• Package structure

Release Notes

• See here for the latest RCP release notes.

Licensing

The default license for SiWT917 RCP Driver is GNU General Public License v2.0.

Documentation

The online RCP documentation is available here.

Software Reference

• See the Getting Started Guide section for instructions on how to set up the SiWT917 Linux driver in RCP mode.
• SiWT917 Software Reference Manual

Hardware Reference

• SiWT917 RCP Datasheet

Package Structure

This software package contains following folders/files :

SiWT917.X.X.X.X

    ├── Firmware  
    ├── apps   
    ├── release   
    ├── rsi 
    └── docs

Content Description

• Firmware : This folder contains firmware binary for SiWT917.

• apps : This folder contains driver tools source code.

• release : This folder contains kernel modules, configuration files of supplicant, hostapd and script files.

• rsi : This folder contains SiWT917 RCP driver source code.

• docs : This folder contains release notes.